As Joe Rogan’s Platform Grows, So Does the Media and Liberal Backlash. Why?

The popular podcast host is a political liberal by all metrics. What explains the contempt he provokes in liberal circles?

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As Joe Rogan’s Platform Grows, So Does the Media and Liberal Backlash. Why?

Glenn Greenwald, System Update

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Trump Prepares to Execute Christopher Vialva for a Crime He Committed as a Teenager

Liliana Segura

Vialva is the first Black man to face execution during Trump’s killing spree. He is set to die on September 24.

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How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Colorado Hometown

Aída Chávez

During the pandemic, some of the people I grew up with got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

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Texas Deployed SWAT, Bomb Robot, Small Army of Cops to Arrest a Woman and Her Dog

Seth Harp

She had done nothing wrong. State troopers started following her because of “anti-law enforcement rhetoric” on her car windows.

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Welcome to the “Anarchist Jurisdiction” of New York — Where Cops Crush Every Tiny Protest

Natasha Lennard

Bill Barr’s designation of Seattle, Portland, and New York is a cynical Trump reelection ploy — with potentially dangerous consequences.

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Facebook Sued Over Kenosha Killings

Theodore Hamm

“If Facebook won’t change their M.O., then a judge needs to tell them to enforce their own standards.”

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State Department Cut Funding for Controversial “Iran Disinfo” Project — but Kept Working With Its Creators

Negar Mortazavi, Murtaza Hussain

Internal documents show a multi-front effort to keep funding and collaboration alive, because the public was unaware of the links.

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Films Financed by Steven Mnuchin Were Tailored to Appeal to China

Mara Hvistendahl

Trump administration officials often criticize Hollywood for appeasing Chinese censors, but the treasury secretary’s voice is conspicuously absent.

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Did the FBI Downplay the Far-Right Politics of Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock?

Daryl Johnson, Eric Lichtblau

After Paddock killed 58 people in 2017, the FBI said he had no political motives. The evidence demands a second look.

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Hunger in America, Especially for Children, Has “Skyrocketed” During Covid-19, Data Shows

Jon Schwarz

The number of children who do not have enough to eat has soared in the pandemic, according to the Census Bureau and Agriculture Department.

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Amid Internal Power Struggle, Firefighters Union Clears President of Wrongdoing

Rachel M. Cohen

IAFF President Harold Schaitberger had been accused by the union’s general secretary-treasurer of improperly receiving pension payments.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

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